Word: recent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...struggling to preserve his throne, Radio Cairo kept up a steady and strident barrage: "Death to the traitors who rule Jordan!"-and suggested that Hussein "receive the same fate as his grandfather," who was assassinated. Similar chants have since poured forth against the leaders of Lebanon and Iraq. A recent sampler of Cairo's aggression by radio...
...only way of keeping the country's oil flowing and Communism out. "History would curse me," he once said, "if I appealed to the emotions of the masses at the expense of the national security." Nuri let the powerful sheiks get richer and richer, but in recent years had seen to it that 70% of the vast oil royalties (some $300 million a year) went to the well-conceived dams and construction programs of the national Development Board. In time, Iraq's common man stood to gain more than the impoverished fellahin of Nasser's Egypt...
...result is "idealistically unrealistic" marriages and "hyperemotional eroticism," complained Father Cervantes, and cited a recent poll, conducted among 20-year-old marriageable girls in twelve cities, that disclosed that their choices for an "ideal" husband, in order of popularity, were 1) Perry Como, 2) William Holden, 3) Rock Hudson. Tied for fourth place were President Eisenhower and Tab Hunter; Elvis Presley tied Tony Curtis for fifth. Classed together as good No. 6 husbands: Marlon Brando, Jeff Chandler, James Dean, Senator John F. Kennedy, Jerry Lewis, Vice President Nixon. This sort of "romantic cult" nonsense, concluded Jesuit Cervantes, is the basic...
...networks' plight is bad, and has probably got worse in recent weeks. Nervous sponsors have canceled traditional programs or shifted their ad budgets to other media. Series-type programs (which require a chunk of network time each week) are being dropped in favor of one-shot spectaculars (which occupy only 60-90 minutes a month). Some of TV's most prestigious shows have got the ax, including Edward R. Murrow's See It Now, Climax!, Wide, Wide World, Suspicion, Kraft Theater...
...recent evening, Japanese at their 14-inch TV screens watched breathlessly as a topknotted samurai disarmed his opponent after some ferocious swordplay. The cowering loser awaited the death thrust; instead, the victor tossed him a bottle of tranquilizer pills, shouted the manufacturer's name and advised: "If you took these regularly, you wouldn't get into such...